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ROS Robotics Projects

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ROS Robotics Projects

Overview of this book

Robot Operating System is one of the most widely used software frameworks for robotic research and for companies to model, simulate, and prototype robots. Applying your knowledge of ROS to actual robotics is much more difficult than people realize, but this title will give you what you need to create your own robotics in no time! This book is packed with over 14 ROS robotics projects that can be prototyped without requiring a lot of hardware. The book starts with an introduction of ROS and its installation procedure. After discussing the basics, you’ll be taken through great projects, such as building a self-driving car, an autonomous mobile robot, and image recognition using deep learning and ROS. You can find ROS robotics applications for beginner, intermediate, and expert levels inside! This book will be the perfect companion for a robotics enthusiast who really wants to do something big in the field.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ROS Robotics Projects
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Project prerequisites


So let's start discussing the project. The following are the software and hardware prerequisites of this project:

No

Component/software

Link

1

Low-cost VR headset

https://vr.google.com/cardboard/get-cardboard/

2

Leap Motion controller

https://www.leapmotion.com/

3

Wi-Fi router

Any router can connect to a PC or Android phone

4

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/

5

ROS Indigo

http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu

6

Leap Motion SDK

https://www.leapmotion.com/setup/linux

This project has been tested on ROS Indigo, and the code is compatible with ROS Kinetic too, but the Leap Motion SDK is still in development for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. So here the code is tested using Ubuntu 14.04.5 and ROS Indigo. If you are ready with the components, let's look at the design of the project and how it works.